Master of the Yale Missal

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As a master of the Yale Missal ( English Master of the Yale Missal) is a French illuminator of the 15th century. The artist, who is not known by name, was a close successor to Jean Fouquet and, like him, is on the threshold from the late Gothic to the early Renaissance.

Naming

The master of the Yale Missal got his emergency name after the illuminations he created on a missal , a missal that is now kept in the library of Yale University .

Works (selection)

  • Geneva, Bibliothèque publique et universitaire, Ms. fr. 187 (Jean de Bueil, le Jouvencel )
  • Geneva, Bibliothèque publique et universitaire, Ms. fr. 189 ( Roman de Tristan )
  • New Haven, Yale University, Kniecke Library MS 425 ("Missale gallicum")
  • New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 41 ("Roman de Tristan", 1468)
  • Paris, BnF, Ms. fr. 102 ( Roman de Tristan )
  • Paris, BnF, Ms. fr. 227 (Boccaccio, Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes for Jeanne de France, 1468)
  • Paris, BnF, Ms. fr. 10141 (Noël de Fribois, "Abbreviation et translation de latin en françoys des Croniques et histoires de France")
  • Paris, BnF, Ms. lat. 8404 (Paulus Senilis, Epigrammatum )
  • Paris, BnF, Ms. NAL 3200 (Book of Hours for the Use of Troyes)
  • San Marino, Huntington Library, Ms. HM 1143 (Book of Hours for the use of Rome)
  • St. Petersburg, Academy Library, Ms. O. 104 (Book of Hours for the use of Tours)
  • Tours, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 194 (Missal for the use of Tours)
  • Vienna, Austrian National Library, Cod. 2577 (Sébastien Mamerot, Histoire des neuf preux et des neuf preuses , 1st volume)

Master of the Viennese Mamerot

The master of the Yale Missal is also after the so-called. Wiener Mamerot (Vienna, ÖNB, Cod. 2577-78), which he illuminated with Jean Colombe . The Vienna manuscript is the only version of the histoire des neuf preux et des neuf preuses by Sébastien Mamerot .

literature

  • Margaret Hadley: The Yale Missal (beincke MS 425). Mendicant Spirituality and a Vernacular Mass Book from the Fouquet Circle . Yale University 2007 [1]
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Yale Missal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French illuminator
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century or 16th century